Happy Tuesday everyone today I want to show you my TOP 6 RESIN MISTAKES!
that new students make. Hi, I am Kellie Chasse - Welcome to my youtube channel!
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that new students make. Hi everyone, Kellie here - happy Tuesday to you.
We are going to talk a little bit about my top resin mistakes.
I hear a lot of my students doing these and I recently added a new course
which is called a FLUID ART and one of the driving factors in
making this video is because I have so many students that struggle with resin.
What I am hearing from a lot of you is that your resin is sticky.
It doesn't cure properly, bubbles in your resin, or there is LINT.
Lint is always getting in your resin. Hairs...or the list goes on from there.
The first time I tried it, I thought ....there is NO WAY I am going to be able to do this
I had resin Everywhere!
Let me share with you my TOP 6 RESIN MISTAKES
that my students make. Mistake #1 - NOT MIXING RESIN PROPERLY.
I know this sounds a little silly.
You are watching a class and they say: "This is how you do it."
But, what you have to keep in mind is that there are so many different brands
of resin out there, and each one of those brands have different
directions. There is a ton of different
kinds of resin, so ... correctly mixing your resin is the number one thing.
If you have sticky or gooey resin, then head back to your directions and
look at your mixture ratio and make sure you are measuring it correctly.
MISTAKE #2 - Pouring your resin in a dusty environment.
In my house we have cats, we have dogs, we have teenagers.
I don't clean everyday! I have a lake house
with the windows open and so stuff is just blowing in all the time we have
a dirt road out here. Even if you clean it every day
you still can find some those dust particles in there, It is really important to
clean your area and not only when you're just about to do it but let it settle
for a little bit because you know when you start cleaning you start dusting
everything goes up in the air and it's all blowing everywhere. So give it time to
settle, after you've cleaned - then what I do:
Take a spritzer bottle of water and just cover my area with a little bit of
water. Just a light mist. That's going to keep the air particles down
or the dust down but remember you don't want to get any of
that water near your resin. You don't want to do this
before you start mixing your resin or have it out.
MISTAKE #3: checking your piece too often. I know I've done it
myself but we cover our resin projects for a reason and that's to keep stuff
out! Make sure that you cover your resin piece and leave it alone.
Do your torching and get your bubbles out and make sure you burn off
any particles that are in there and then cover it make. Make sure you cover it
you leave it alone for a while. Give that a chance. Especially
some of these brands that take 24 hours to cure even though you think you have
it just right you know you're all can't all open this up and I'll check it out
and before you know it you have a cat here and there something and it just sitting
on top and at that point you can't torch it because it will mess up
your resin piece. So...very important not to check it too often I
know it's it's tough to do. MISTAKE # 4: Not using a torch to
remove your air bubbles. Now, I a lot of people use heat guns a lot of
people use blow dryers, but what that does is it just blows the dust around if
you're using a torch it's got the flame on it and that's going to actually burn
off any particles that are in your resin or near your resin.
That will keep out all of those unhappy surprises. Use a small butane
torch, a little plumber's torch , a creme brulee torch or chef torch, one that
you might have that in your house and they're not that expensive the butane
ones are small if you're doing big projects you might want to get one of
those gigantic propane ones. I have one of those, but I don't use it very often I
usually find that my little plumber's torch works just as well
MISTAKE #5: NOT LEVELING your art piece prior to resin.
Some of you might think about leveling your table
Your tables level everything's good but that may not be true. Make sure that your
art piece AND your table are both level and take time to make sure
that your art is level when you are working with your with your resin.
That's what happens... if not levely - it just slides out to one end.
You have one side that's a little bit higher than the other with the resin it's just not perfect.
MISTAKE #6 - last one, here we go: TOSSING YOUR PROJECT AWAY.
Don't do it! You've done everything right, but your piece still managed to get an
air bubble in there... or... or..... or.... BUT don't toss it! All you do is let that resin cure.
At least for the art resin brand
a light sand or very high grit or
fine grit sandpaper and just lightly sand it. It's going to scare you at first
because it just looks like it's all scratched up but when you do your
another coat of resin on top - a clear coat, it will be fine. Now you don't just
just sand the one area the area that has the problem because what can happen
if you do just a small area it's not going to level
remember resin is self-leveling so it might have a little dip or a bump in there so
make sure you sand your entire piece. I know it sounds like a pain especially with
a larger piece but RE-sand the whole thing lightly wipe it off make
sure you've got all of the excess off there and then just do another top coat
AND follow all those other directions! That is my top six , I hope
that was helpful if you're excited to give resin a try or if you've never done it
before or you're terrified of doing it again because it was such a disaster
there are tons of wonderful online classes out there for resin Jane Montieth my
friend has a great online class and she shows you her mini mods. I have obviously
a number of resin classes out there on my website so feel free to check that
I'll leave the link down below for you and then I just want to share with you
my favorite brand of resin to use it's art resin. They have some great videos on
their YouTube channel and I'll link that for you as well so now that you know
what NOT to do, give it a try check out my classes remember you guys that
practice makes perfect so if you don't get it right the first time try try
again. Take care, hope you have a great week bye
bye